1856 - 1874 China’s loss of control over its own seaports (Treaty Ports) including British regulation of Chinese emigration -- is the necessary condition for the beginning of the Chinese Coolie ...

The term “coolie” is commonly associated with Chinese Americans depicted as an involuntary slave labor force, forced cheap ...

A few thousands of Coolies and Chinese thrown into the country would ... most of the articles of general consumption received from America. For fish there is a great demand, whilst supplies ...

An early scene in CHINESE IN THE FRONTIER WEST: An American Story imagines a Chinese ... "Let us consider the vile coolies, who like craven beasts work the goldmines only to return to their ...

Over the years, Chinese coolies in search of “squeeze” have slowly taken over all the work aboard—first the dirtiest jobs which no American sailor wanted to do, finally everything from ...

Coolie is an epic 19th-century tale of romance that crosses continents. It is the story of Chulin, (Louise Wong – Wang Tan Ni), a poor orphaned Chinese girl who leaves her home in southern China and ...